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and more the cravings for carnal pleasures, which are easily available. अविद्या-भिदुरं ज्योतिः परं भाममयं महत् ।
सत्प्रष्टव्यं तदेष्टव्यं तत् द्रष्टव्यं मुमुक्षुभिः ॥ ४६॥ The supreme and superb spiritual radiance is the destroyer of nescience; therefore the seekers of salvation, should ask about that Divine light, should intensely long for it and should try to be blessed with the vision of Divinity. Samayasara elucidates :परमाणुमित्तियं पि हु रागादीणं दु विज्जदे जस्स ।
__ण वि सो जाणदि अप्पाणयं तु सव्वागमधरोवि ॥२०१॥ Verily one, in whom attachment even to the extent of an atom is present, cannot know the (pure) Self even if one be a master of all Scriptures.
छिज्जादु वा भिज्जदु वा णिज्जदु वा अहव जादु विप्पलयं ।
जम्हा तम्हा गच्छदु तहविहु ण परिग्गहो मज्झ ॥२०॥ It (the body or other external object) may be pierced, torn asunder, or it inay be destroyed, whatever manner of deformity it may undergo, it does not concern me as the worldly object is not mine. एयत्त-णिच्छयगदो समप्री सव्वत्व सुंदरो लोए।।
बंध-कहा एयत्ते तेण विसंवादिणी होई ॥३॥ The Self which has realised its oneness (uncontaminated by alien conditions) is the beautiful ideal in the whole universe. To associate bondage with this unity is therefore self-contradictory.
